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Sir George Lewis to investigate, Inspector Bucket 

 became a necessity. On May 2 the following notice 

 was issued : 



1 £1,000 Reward. — Poisoning of Orme. — Whereas on 

 the 2 1st of April last, at Kingsclere Stable, in the county 

 of Hants, the racehorse Orme, the property of his Grace 

 the Duke of Westminster, was wilfully poisoned, the 

 above reward will be paid by the Duke of Westminster to 

 any person who shall, within one month from this date, 

 furnish such information as shall lead to the apprehension 

 and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the said 

 crime. Information to be furnished to Messrs. Lewis & 

 Lewis, Ely Place, Holborn, E.C 



The conflict of opinion over the afflicted body 

 of Orme was, fortunately for some of the fiercer 

 antagonists, confined to paper warfare. One shudders 

 at the idea of what might have happened if the con- 

 troversialists had met, in the flesh, over a Round 

 Table. While there were veterinary authorities 

 who had a good word to say for the voluminous, 

 not to say inflated, views of the horse dentist, 

 there was at least one veterinary surgeon who 

 declared that Leoffler's theory was no less absurd 

 than the allegation that the horse had been poisoned. 

 Even Mr. (Sir) George Lewis did not escape 

 calumny in the course of that fiercely heated 

 controversy. ' Mr. George Lewis,' wrote one 

 belligerent, rising scathingly to the occasion, ' who 

 is reported to have ridiculed Professor Leoffler's 

 views on the subject of Orme's decayed tooth, may 

 or not be an eminent horse dentist. I always 



